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The setting up and running of a server to serve web pages via the Internet or LAN. Technical questions about the server (if you have access to it) maybe best asked on serverfault.com. Read the answers to this question: ...

I know next to nothing pertaining to this topic, so I will do my best to describe my situation. I tried looking for answers, but I think I just need someone to put it into layman's terms for me.
I am ...

I just purchased a domain on Dreamhost, let's say foo.com. I already have hosting, let's say at 123.4.56.789, and have setup a directory foo.com which is accessible at 123.4.56.789/foo.com/. I can set ...

As the title says, I see most web hosting companies provide plans that running Apache instead of Nginx. So, what is the reason that makes them stick with Apache? Although, Nginx is much more lighter ...

I maintain a personal website though have never put much effort in building up the front-end. I really just use it as a testbed for various projects I'm working on or tinkering with. For a few years ...

Are there security disadvantages to using a shared hosting environment instead of a VPS or dedicated server? Could using a shared server or a VPS be considered negligence in the event of a security ...

I found in a video zz.zz.zz.zzz.com being as a URL and streaming the content from this.
attached is the URL fro information. My question is: is there some URL like this zz...? Is this a localhost / a ...

I bought a domain name on a registrar's website for a cheap price but it didn't include hosting.
Now I realized I'd like to have emails sent to me@mydomain.com. My friend has a hosting account and he ...

I recently purchased a domain and created the website. I found that this belongs to "None" category and so found blocked in cyberoam firewall.
I tried with all possible meta tags at index.html. But ...

I am working to build a new version of my website.
During the time I'm building it I would like to view it live on the internet without having to delete the old one.
What is the best way to do this?
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OK, I've set up my Mac OS 10.8 2.2.24 Apache server, and it's serving well. Now I'm just trying to understand how to do log rotation. I'm using newsyslog, and it seems to work very well ... as in, I ...

In looking at my logs, I get many GET requests aimed at a directory with what appear to be auto-index parameters. Stuff like ?C=M or ?O=A. I understand those.
But I also get many requests with ?N=D, ...

I am starting to learn web deployment on my own. I just downloaded an open source, alfresco and trying few things on my own. After so much reading I managed to hide the 8080 url from the site using ...

I have a somedomainname.in domain with hosting from some ABC provider. The site is up and running.
I recently bought its .com i.e somedomainname.com from a seller on GoDaddy, I want to use the same ...

Currently I use USA based VPS. According to Google analytics USA, India, Malaysia, UK are respectively generated majority of my blog traffic.
I found a same specification, but low cost VPS provider ...

There are several services giving a possibility to test ping time to a server. But if I don't have any server on tested hosting yet - how do I test the ping to it? Can I ping hosting web-site it self?
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When I log into to my hosting provider to view my website stats I have noticed that there are a few repeated page URLs with a full stop on the end. I have hunted for this additional page on my FTP but ...

I thought if I removed the host name from the site's binding, like the Default Web Site, just my machine name in the URL would work, but I replaced the binding, and thought my machine name/IP address, ...

I have recently hosted a website on my ubuntu pc and I can access the page at localhost and my external ip. but when I try typing my external IP on my phone that is connected to is own network (3g) ...

I am thinking about renting a server.
The problem is, there aren't just "servers", like one would build at home, there are game servers, web servers, etc.
Now the first question would be: can I rent ...

I just created a new environment with AWS and uploaded a .zip file into elastic beanstalk. I used to have a friend's server host my site instead of GoDaddy so I changed my custom DNS name servers from ...

I have a website, but I want to change the domain name to be used instead by another of my websites which is hosted somewhere else. How can I do that?
For example, I have www.example.com it is about ...

I have a development environment on my machine and a remote shared development environment. Both have "identically" configured WebLogic 10.3 servers.
On my local dev environment, the meta tag below ...

I purchased a domain from Hover and I'm setting up Google Apps for Business on it. I went through the steps to change my MX records to Google's MX records, and everything was working fine. However, ...

NO this is no duplicate of the above. My question is very specific to VPS and is not solely related to hosting but also to virtual desktop and such. The above barely writes 2 lines about VPS and never ...